Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 770 603 586
Rank change year-on-year -167 -17 +9
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 48 63 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the General category 0.088% 0.19% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 18 25 80
10th Percentile £55,750 - £56,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% -3.13% +5.89%
75th Percentile £113,750 £86,250 £122,500
90th Percentile £129,500 £95,000 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £71,250 £85,000
% change year-on-year +19.30% -16.18% +12.50%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 54,720 33,883 42,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.25% 68.39% 57.61%
Number of salaries quoted 33,342 17,485 20,913
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,265 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -1.38%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -143 47 £98,750 +27.42% 79
London -96 32 £105,000 +27.27% 53
UK excluding London -132 15 £85,000 +19.30% 34
Work from Home -32 13 £107,500 +40.98% 42
North of England -59 8 £85,000 +30.77% 15
North West -25 6 £85,000 +30.77% 9
Midlands -53 3 £102,500 +32.26% 2
South West - 3 - - 2
East Midlands -29 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 £102,500 - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 4

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (33.33%) Azure
2 15 (31.25%) AWS
3 9 (18.75%) GCP
4 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (14.58%) Power Platform
6 6 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (12.50%) Mimecast
7 5 (10.42%) SaaS
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 4 (8.33%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (4.17%) Collibra
9 2 (4.17%) Datadog
9 2 (4.17%) Figma
9 2 (4.17%) Google Analytics
9 2 (4.17%) Serverless
9 2 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (14.58%) Power BI
2 6 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.17%) Metadata
3 2 (4.17%) Mixpanel
3 2 (4.17%) MySQL
3 2 (4.17%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Git
2 3 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
General
1 45 (93.75%) Banking
2 41 (85.42%) Finance
3 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
4 10 (20.83%) Corporate Banking
4 10 (20.83%) Law
5 9 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (18.75%) Investment Banking
6 8 (16.67%) Legal
7 6 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (12.50%) Retail
8 3 (6.25%) Marketing
9 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
9 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (2.08%) Electronics
10 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Senior
2 6 (12.50%) Lead
2 6 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Data Scientist
3 5 (10.42%) Lead Data Scientist
3 5 (10.42%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Senior Data Scientist
4 4 (8.33%) Graduate
4 4 (8.33%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Product Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Account Executive
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Change Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) NumPy
1 7 (14.58%) Pandas
2 5 (10.42%) scikit-learn
2 5 (10.42%) XGBoost
3 4 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 4 (8.33%) Terraform
4 3 (6.25%) REST
5 2 (4.17%) CrewAI
5 2 (4.17%) jQuery
5 2 (4.17%) Kafka
5 2 (4.17%) LangChain
5 2 (4.17%) LangGraph
5 2 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (4.17%) PySpark
5 2 (4.17%) React
5 2 (4.17%) RESTful
5 2 (4.17%) Spring
5 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.08%) OAuth
6 1 (2.08%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.42%) Credit Risk
3 5 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.42%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.17%) Mobile Wallet
4 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.08%) Online Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) AI
2 20 (41.67%) Analytics
3 15 (31.25%) Machine Learning
3 15 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 10 (20.83%) Data Science
4 10 (20.83%) Regulatory Compliance
4 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (18.75%) DevOps
5 9 (18.75%) Generative AI
6 8 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 8 (16.67%) Data Privacy
6 8 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (14.58%) Digital Banking
7 7 (14.58%) Microservices
7 7 (14.58%) Validation
8 6 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
8 6 (12.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) Python
2 16 (33.33%) Java
3 14 (29.17%) SQL
4 8 (16.67%) C#
5 6 (12.50%) C++
6 4 (8.33%) Go
6 4 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 4 (8.33%) Rust
6 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) GDPR
2 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.42%) EU AI Act
3 2 (4.17%) ISO 20022
3 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.17%) PMO
3 2 (4.17%) PSD2
4 1 (2.08%) GRC
4 1 (2.08%) ISO 9001
4 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) EnCase
1 6 (12.50%) FTK
2 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.17%) Grafana
3 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.83%) Google
3 6 (12.50%) Cellebrite
3 6 (12.50%) Nuix
3 6 (12.50%) Relativity
4 4 (8.33%) Databricks
5 3 (6.25%) OpenAI
6 2 (4.17%) Amplitude
6 2 (4.17%) Informatica
7 1 (2.08%) EMC
7 1 (2.08%) Revolut
7 1 (2.08%) Workday